Rainy Day Reads

This is the second and I assume final book of this series. Only read this review if you’ve read the first book as there are slight spoilers for “Six of Crows” ahead.   After the heist has been foiled our heroes try to regroup. There are massive obstacles in their way, but as always Kaz has a plan. He has many plans and I was constantly amazed by the long game he was playing. He always planned for any eventuality, which kept me on my toes throughout the entire book. There is a danger with books like this, that they become slightly repetitive and unbelievable, because of the sheer immensity of all these plans and eventualities. But that never happened in this book. The action is as breathtakingly quick as the last book, and the characters are even more developed and every single one of them had a place in my heart long before the book finished.  Even more gratifyingly my favorite ship set sail and sailed gloriously into the sunset by the end of this book and my co...

Challenges: Diversity Bingo 2017: Disabled Main Character This book has been on my TBR for a while, but I’ve been hesitating to pick it up, because it’s been SOOO hyped. I did also read Bardugo’s other work “The Grisha trilogy” or what it’s called these days, and wasn’t particularly fussed about it. But I have to say this book was way better than the trilogy and I can’t wait to pick up the second book.  In this book we follow a crew of thieves and outcasts who join together to perform a major heist. All the odds are stacked against them, but for some reason or other each person joins the crew and they set off in the face of almost insurmountable obstacles. The plot is insane, intricate and fast paced from the get go, but the characters are almost better. Every single one of them has a distinct voice and a well developed persona, and we slowly unravel their stories and see what has brought them to be outcasts in the first place.  As for representation there...